Vilma Jää never expected to play a major role in one of the 21st century’s most acclaimed operas when she enrolled at the ...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s final work is an immersive, astonishing achievement, viscerally depicting a group of ...

The opera’s allure has drawn in movie stars, socialites, royalty, and more throughout the years.

As today’s audiences seek more immersive, multi-sensory cultural experiences, the partnership between two heritage houses ...

School shootings are a tragically common occurrence in the United States, but rarely do they grace the stage of one of the ...

So I shouldn’t be troubled by the way the late Kaija Saariaho turned a fictional school shooting into a work of modernist ...

Perrier-Jouët has been named the first official Champagne partner of the Metropolitan Opera as part of a new five-year ...

A director’s invention in “Tristan und Isolde” is causing controversy at the Metropolitan Opera, the nation’s preeminent but ...

Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence,” a powerful and kaleidoscopic depiction of mass violence and its aftermath, has arrived at the ...

Kaija Saariaho, a Finn, was one of the most prominent composers of our time. She died in 2023, at seventy. Last night, the ...

Lisa Davidsen has been starring as Isolde in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde." ...

The creators of a new “Tristan und Isolde” production explain the influences behind every element of a crucial scene.